Whether a mailbox is used by multiple users as a collaborative tool or a communication gateway to customers, retaining a record of emails sent from a shared mailbox remains an important business requirement. In Exchange 2010, there was a way to configure...

This morning we released the complete list of sessions offered at Microsoft Ignite , including the full list of Exchange sessions . Ignite is the premier event for the Exchange community, bringing together the people who build Exchange and those who work...

Responders are the final critical part of Managed Availability. Recall that Probes are how Monitors obtain accurate information about the experience your users are receiving. Responders are what the Monitors use to attempt to fix the situation. Once they...

It has been almost exactly two years now that we had a post about our Exchange On-Premises TAP program and how you can (and why you would want to) nominate yourself for the program. Well, the time is right again, and we would like to re-invite you to...

One of the more popular deployment options for Office 365, and more specifically Exchange Online, is the Exchange Hybrid Configuration . This deployment option gives customers a way to move some of their mailboxes to Exchange Online, while keeping some...

If your organization has mailboxes in Office 365, you might want to know about this: there is a change coming to extended email retention period for deleted items in Office 365. Head over to Office Blogs and read all about it! Extended email retention...

In April 2011, I documented our recommendation around utilizing Kerberos authentication for MAPI clients to address scalability limits with NTLM authentication. The solution leverages deploying an Alternate Service Account (ASA) credential so that domain...

Now that Windows Server 2003 end of life (July 14 th , 2015) is on the horizon, many customers are updating their Active Directory (AD) Domain Controllers (DC) from 2003. The first item to consider is which Windows Server Operating System (OS) you will...

We have previously published guidance for setting up multiple OWA and ECP virtual directories for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, and now it is the turn of Exchange Server 2013. The eagle eyed amongst you may spot some copy and paste from previous blogs...

Here’s a scenario that might be familiar to you: Sometimes, in support-focused organizations, the email account for external communications with customers is often managed by a single employee. When that employee transitions out of that role, mailbox...

This morning we published the first look at the Ignite session catalog providing you a better view of what to expect at Ignite . Ignite brings together the Exchange Conference with TechEd and other Microsoft technology events. By attending Ignite, you...

I’m happy to announce that the Exchange performance virtual team within Microsoft Support has produced some fantastic new performance guidance content for Exchange 2013 users, and it is now available on TechNet at http://aka.ms/Ex2013PerfContent . This...

The process of recovering deleted users or mailboxes in a hybrid or cloud-only organization can be frustrating. When dealing with these scenarios, customers would sometimes end up with multiple mailboxes for a single user, find that some emails are missing...

Update - 2/9/15 : Since publishing this blog we made a decision to push one aspect of this change to CU9 to allow some partners a little more time to adapt to this new behavior. The new signout.aspx code is still shipping in CU8, but we are not changing...

I’m happy to announce support for use of an Azure virtual machine as an Exchange 2013 Database Availability Group witness server. Automatic datacenter failover in Exchange 2013 requires three physical sites, but many of our customers with stretched DAGs...

Over the last several months, I have been involved in several critical customer escalations (what we refer to as critsits) for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013. As a result of my involvement, I have noticed several common themes and trends. The intent...

S/MIME in Office 365 S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a standard for public key encryption and digital signing of MIME data. Configuring S/MIME in Office 365 is a slightly different procedure than configuring S/MIME on-premises...

We know that many of you are anxiously awaiting the release of our quarterly Exchange updates planned for November. Earlier today the Exchange Team decided to hold the release of these packages until December. We made this decision to provide more time...

Situation If transitioning your organization from a non-Exchange system such as Google or Lotus Notes to Office 365, you typically need to follow the IMAP migration path. As diagnosing and remediating any issues you might run into during such a migration...

What are we talking about today? In Exchange 2013 CU5 (yes 5, V, cinco, fem, and cinque) we started implementing changes to how Legacy Public Folder endpoint discovery will be performed by Outlook (for Windows) in the future. This work continues behind...

Note : Cumulative Update 7 (CU7) for Exchange Server 2013 will be released soon TM . Back in May , I discussed the changes we introduced in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 5. Specifically with CU5 and later, an OAB can only be assigned (or linked) to...

Today, we released updated versions of both the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator and the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator . The Exchange 2010 version is an incremental update and only includes minor bug fixes. You can...

This morning on The Official Microsoft Blog , we revealed more details about our unified technology event for event for enterprises in May. The event will be known as Microsoft Ignite. If you are one of the many MEC conference alumni this is the conference...

We wanted to give you a heads up that depending on the version of Exchange you are running, there might be some impact to either names of time zones that are changing on October 26, or the way that actual meetings are displayed in affected time zones...